Each week will have a different theme around a single word. Post your photos in the comments. You don't need to be a pro to participate. Please feel free to "stick" this post if you'd like to participate or follow along. ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE
Aksalon, will you take over for December?
It's not my photo, but i've been scanning old family photos lately and wanted to share this one. I like how it reminds my how people I consider relatively old today, used to be young and cool. And, it was thanksgiving in America yesterday no? Perfect time of the year to think back on old memories or listen to the older folk's stories. It's my last challenge for this month and I thought I'd give you something very open to interpretation, can't wait to see your posts :)
Theme for Friday, November 29th: OLD
I'm tagging people that participated to the daily photo challenge, please tell me if you want me to remove you from the list.
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This is a photo of my good friend Ralph (a former Hubskier) and my daughter. It was taken a couple years ago. Unfortunately, Ralph has since passed away. I remember this day fondly.
My wife and I are watching the show LOST right now and we are close to finishing it. This image would be right at home on that show. Where was it taken? What am I looking at? It's certainly compelling.
I took it at Sedlec Ossuary (a.k.a. "the bone church") in the Czech Republic. It's a burial site that eventually got around to organizing their bones and some guy decided to have fun with them. He made pyramids of bones, a chandelier of bones, a crest of bones, bone garland, and topped it off by signing his name in bones. This is one of the bone piles with some skulls tastefully arranged in front of it as an accent.
At first I found it a mixture of creepy and intriguing, but after a while of being there (I was there for a LONG time taking pictures), I honestly found it more funny than creepy. Some guy was wondering what to do with all the bones... and decided fuck it, he was going to decorate the place with them. It's like macabre upcycling.
Some of the things were actually kind of whimsical, now that you mention it. The coat of arms, or crest comes to mind. I do have to wonder about what that person or people were like to talk to. As in, were they well-adjusted and cheerfully going about their work or something else?
The guy who did it was FrantiĊĦek Rint. Your guess is as good as mine as to why he did it though. I like to think that he was just doing it for shits and giggles rather than to create something dark and scary.
Man, this exchange makes me want to go back to Prague even more. It's a cool area and I'd really like to spend more than a week there, just getting to know the place. By any chance did you go to the natural history museum there? A bit homey for a museum if you ask me, though I did enjoy it for what it was. I remember that the model of the mastodon (or was it a mammoth?) was missing quite a lot of its hair.
Baker; best known for Alien Beef Jerky, and a spot where Hunter S. Thompson gets caught in during 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. I'd also like to take a brief moment to apologise for my lack of activity recently. I've been caught up quitting my job after being headhunted to a new organisation and role. Both being public service, you can imagine the nightmare and phone calls/emails and shite I had to wade through. I couldn't bring myself to last weeks photo gig because it was themed work, and it was sitting in a beach house 50m from surf and sand, staring at a laptop and unresponsive printer/scanner I lugged on holidays with me. But! Everything's sorted, enough gas bagging from me, I shall resume photos, discussions, and Interesting Beer Weekly Thread come Monday.
....though it's now gone, growing up I passed this giant Big Boy statue almost every day in my home town.
Yes, that's exactly what it was. Pretty old-school. In high school we would go there and order coffee and pie and smoke ungodly amounts of cigarettes. I'm sure they hated us
This one is fantastic, great work. The woman kissing her child, the old man with the small coat and large hat... This image has a narrative that may have only existed for a brief moment. It could be that these people don't even know one another, but you've captured them as a group. That old mans face looks like its seen a lot, doesn't it? I really enjoyed this one, thanks for posting.
